Speech Signal Filters based on Soft Computing Techniques: A Comparison

Speech Signal filtering is an active research area in speech processing and soft computing techniques are now being employed for the process. Various approaches have been used in the past for filtering speech signals. One approach to filter noise is a linear filter called a band pass filter which is unsuitable for filtering speech signals since the number of possible frequencies in the human audible range at which audio signals occur in the real world is very large. Besides this, a band pass filter cannot handle fuzzy rules and fuzzy values representing ranges of frequencies along with not being able to handle them in a robust manner by handling imprecision and time variance. More robust, more effective and more efficient techniques from the realm of soft computing are being applied to solve fundamental problems. Some instances of such application include co-active neurofuzzy inference systems for the XOR problem [11], fuzzy mathematics for paralinguistic content elimination from a speech signal [10] and hybrid techniques for speech signal filtering.